The match featuring Argentina and France is the most-watched World Cup Final in U.S. television history.
It averaged 12.966 million, which is up 163% from the 2018 Knockout Round average from the 2018 World Cup.
FS1 and FOX Sports streams accounted for 3.23 million viewers for the English-language broadcast of the opener. That number was 1.72 million in Russia four years...